Noodles sticking to server walls … WP.com performance

Noodles? Sticking to server walls?
So this is where my blog is hosted … in a place where noodles are thrown against poor old servers!

Right now we’re in noodle mode, throwing things against the server walls and seeing what sticks.
Matt: WP.com Performance

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Tolerance of Stupid Questions

… and smart people can’t stand stupid questions, whereas newbies can’t do without them.
Vishnu Vyas: Why Lisp?

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Are you tethered to the commercial gerbil wheel?

Just because technology makes it possible for us to work 10 times faster than we used to doesn’t mean we should do it. The body may be able to withstand the strain — for a while — but the spirit isn’t meant to flail away uselessly on the commercial gerbil wheel. The boys in corporate don’t want you to hear this because the more they can suck out of you, the lower their costs and the higher their profit margin. And profit is god, after all. (Genuflect here, if you must.)
Tony Long: Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die

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Content can pop blood vessels

When it comes down to it, one of the biggest problems with developing a big site really isn’t the technology, the information architecture or even the design. Nope, in terms of time-sucking, nail-biting, blood vessel-popping problems, content is probably the biggest.
Getting it is the first big problem, and as far as I know there’s not a technology in the world that will yank content out of reticent or disorganized clients.
Sean Carton: Will Riya Be the End of Flickr?

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Flickr’s interestingness

But interestingness in Flickr doesn’t pay. At least not yet. Non-pro users are seeing ads around my photos, but Yahoo’s not sharing the wealth with me, even though I’ve created a draw. Flickr’s plenty open, they’re doing the right thing by any measure of the web as we saw it a year ago, or two years ago. Today, though, openness around value exchange is as important as openness around data exchange.
Anil Dash: The Interesting Economy

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Web Designers: Embrace your bottoms!

It’s time we designers start thinking about page footers as part of the experience design of a complete site. The bottom of a page is the kiss at the end of the date – and we’re making sites that end without even a handshake.
Derek Powazek: Just a Thought

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Hanging out in the prostate

“Lycopene accumulates in the prostate. That’s its favorite place to hang out,� explained Holly Hantz, an undergraduate who is doing research on lycopene’s effects.
Does lycopene reduce the risk of prostate cancer?

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Wrote a book on MT and switched to WP

And yeah, I might have written a book on MT, but I was so fed up with the product that the very week the book came out I switched to WordPress.
Molly Holzschlag

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They know how to run servers

By all accounts that I’ve ever seen, the people at TextDrive are among the most clued-in you’re going to find in the web hosting business. They know how to run servers, and they understand today’s “agile� development tools.
TurboGears moves to TextDrive

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Software Fanaticism

We aim to gain customers that are mature and rational and like our products because the products really are good, not just because they have made an emotional investment in them. Being emotionally involved with a piece of software that some company produced is really sad and pathetic.
haxial.com

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